If you do nothing else today...

(including your job), you HAVE to check out this link from friend and coworker Sara Schaefer just showed me:

 Via Sad and Useless

I think these pretty much speak for themselves.  Follow the link, there are more.

Spring Oreos!

Remember the Seinfeld episode where Elaine eats the $29,000 slice of King Edward VIII's wedding cake that her boss won at an auction because she has an addiction to afternoon sweets?

Well that is EXACTLY what I have. Practically every day there are sweets sent to our show and I can never pass them up. So on the off days where there's nothing in the kitchen, I turn into a sugar fiend. My latest obsession is Spring Oreos. They are far better than regular Oreos because they have yellow centers. This makes them sublime. The best fiance ever has to run out and buy them for me when we get low. It's that bad. I'm either going to appear as the first ever Oreo-addict on Intervention, or I'm going to figure out a way to incorporate them into my wedding.

Top left image from Martha Stewart Weddings

I love the tiered Oreo cake!  But with my Spring Oreos of course.  I only have had 4 left.

I wonder if anyone else has ever determined their wedding color palette based upon a Nabisco product?


P.S.  In case you were wondering, my addiction to Spring Oreos has unfortunately not made spring come any quicker here in NYC.

March Madness!

Taking a little breather from wedding planning and heading to Newark tomorrow to cheer on my Tar Heels! They will be facing Kentucky in the Elite 8 game.

GO HEELS!

Honor Roll

Today's honor roll goes to...

Priscilla of Boston!

All photos from Priscilla of Boston website.

Now that I've begun wedding dress shopping, I guess I have tulle on the brain or something.  Though I haven't tried on any Priscilla gowns yet, I just love anything that saves me time and the Priscilla website posts the prices of their gowns online!  I KNOW, crazy pants.  Crazy skirts rather.  And this includes their other gown lines like Melissa Sweet and Vineyard AND select gowns from Vera Wang's Fall 2010 line.

So yeah, if you couldn't already tell, I'm a numbers girl.  I like removing emotion and alcohol from all my monetary-exchanging decisions and knowing when a dress is affordable is a great way to not make an emotionally charged Way Too Much Wedding decision.

However, if you are a sneaky internet scrounger like me, you may have noticed that you can figure out the price of many wedding gowns that won't post their prices online (boo) by going to one of the following sites:
Preowned Wedding Dresses
OnceWed
Recyced Bride

These sites are primarily for girls looking to buy or sell second-hand gowns, but I've found them an invaluable resource for figuring out the retail price for many popular gowns.  Sellers must post the retail value along with their for sale price, so voilà!  Mystery solved.  And, as wedding costs continue to spiral more and more out of control, you can certainly count on more of these sites popping up in the future!  So now we've got that going for us...

It was through one of these sites that I was able to sever my love affair with the Vera Wang Esther dress.  As if learning that it was Ivanka Trump's dress of choice wasn't enough of a hint...

Sources: Getty via US Weekly and Vera Wang

With that said, I promise that not all of my Honor Roll inductees will be based on their ability to post rates online.  Although it helps, don't you think?

Check out my previous Honor Roll Inductee:
Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Good Humor

If you couldn't tell already, humor is very important to me. In fact, I never pass up a chance to take myself less seriously. I feel that a sense of humor is equally important when planning a wedding and an excellent defense against WTMWS.

Here are a few brides and grooms (and photographers!!!) who seem to share my sarcastic brand of humor:




Sources: Lilian Haidar, 4 Eyes, Rentsch, Jeremy Harris, Julie Wilhite via Style Me Pretty and Nordica Photography via Moment Junkie.


The cab driver is amazing.

Sheep not included.

Pnina Tornai gown via Kleinfeld

I just started looking for wedding dresses, and as part of my NYC wedding education, I feel it is absolutely necessary to make an appointment at Kleinfeld. THE Kleinfeld, of Say Yes to the Dress fame. It's the only place they sell Pnina Tornai gowns evidently, so if I want to look like the finest Bo Peep $10,000+ can buy (according to the Kleinfeld $$$$$ price key), this is my only shot!

I'm not doing the show. Don't even ask.

Stock Weddings

A large portion of my job entails spending hours sifting through stock photo websites in search of photos we can use on the show (oh by the way I work for a TV show in NYC). Curiosity got the best of me and I did a search for wedding photos... and WOW. Stock photos are awesome. They usually involve some of the worst, most unnatural acting I've ever seen. Plus, they spare every expense when it comes to wardrobe, hair, styling, etc. Just take a look at the below photos! Enjoy!

The Awkward Pose

Be one with the rock. Work it. Own it, 90's Courtney Cox.

Suck it in! Don't worry, no one will notice!

I always hoped for a full moon on my wedding!

One hand on knee, one on hip. A classic.

Excedrin for Brides

This shotgun wedding just got interesting!

She's soooo ready to tie the knot

I'm ready for my virgin sacrifice!

This pose looked so cute when I was 5...

I shouldn't be wearing white!

If you have better captions, add them in the comments!

Sources: All photos Thinkstock, except Photo 3 SuperStock